The newest little history by Elizabeth Woodfall (historian of wind) is now available at The Elizabeths. It was inspired by, in part (and is a thank-you for, in part) a recent musical performance by Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Seattle. You can find it by heading over to The History of Song. To hear a song from the concert that … Continue reading The History of Song: A Little Story
The newest little history by Elizabeth Woodfall (historian of wind) is now available at The Elizabeths, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Blue and meeting a woman made of ink. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Blue: A Little Story
Some gatherings serve as reminders of why it’s important for people to make time to physically come together to share work and ideas. A recent workshop on cartography and spatial thinking organized by Katharina Piechocki and Tom Conley at Radcliffe was a model of this, generous and inspiring in all kinds of wonderful ways. Here, see for yourself: this is an offering, an inventory of moments … Continue reading quote and paraphrase (a little list)
Springtime at The Elizabeths is a time for love stories. The newest history by Elizabeth Sanders (historian of liquid) is now available. You can find it by heading over to The History of Rain. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Rain: A Little Story
The newest story by Elizabeth Woodfall (historian of wind) is now available, and you can find it by heading over to The History of Shivers. For more on The Elizabeths, an ongoing experiment in conjectural sensual historiography, check out the main project site. Continue reading The History of Shivers: A Little Story
The newest little story from The Elizabeths, a fiction experiment in conjectural early modern history, is now up on the site. This is the first story by Elizabeth Turvey, historian of flame. You can read it by clicking over to “The History of Ashes.” For more on the project, check this out. Continue reading The History of Ashes: A Little Story
There’s a new storypost up at “Reading Notes: The Intertwining – The Chiasm”: this one is a translation of the first sentence of the Merleau-Ponty essay that forms the heart of this fiction/translation/exploration/reading project. You can find it by clicking on the red link in the text below! “If it is true that as soon as philosophy declares itself to be reflection or coincidence it prejudges what it … Continue reading all at once, pell-mell
A new post in the “Translating Recipes” series just went up on The Recipes Project. This one is a further exploration of the power of between-ness and Manchu medical recipes. It’s part 2 of 3, and you can check it out by heading over here. Continue reading Translating Recipes: Between, Pt. 2
It’s time to meet the final historian of The Elizabeths – Elizabeth Rively, the historian of burial, is now on the project site. Her histories are coming soon, but in the meantime you can learn about her (and her worms) by checking out the first part of her story: The Decomposer. Continue reading Elizabeth Rively (Historian of Burial), Pt. 1: The Decomposer
Meet Elizabeth Turvey, historian of flame. Before reading her first stories, learn a little bit about her and her particular approach to material history by heading over to the the first part of her life history, 1. An Art of Conversion. For more on the Elizabeths project in conjectural early modern historiography, check this out. Continue reading Elizabeth Turvey (Historian of Flame), Pt. 1: An Art of Conversion
Carla Nappi 